with the committee and that is according to reporting by abc and cnn. then you have mike pompeo confirm today that he is in talks with the committee. abc news reporting this about the state of the negotiations with the panel saying in part, quote, the house select committee investigating the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol is in active discussions with former secretary of state mike pompeo for his testimony behind closed doors. sources familiar with the matter telling abc news. pompeo is tentatively scheduled to speak with the committee come the coming days, sources said. pompeo was among the few trumpa allies and officials that at least publicly stuck with the ex-president in the immediate aftermath of the attack. he said, quote, while we all think the violence that took place in the capitol was tragic, and i ve watched away people walk away from the president and they are not listening to the american people, not remotely. pompeo played a critical role in the trump a
the media would go easy on biden because, basically, he s not trump? that s out the window. look at sunday s new york times. biden s age is a big problem. polls show many americans consider mr. biden too old, and some democratic strategists do not think he should run again. monday s new york times, most democrats don t want biden to run again in 2024. that figure, 64%. tuesday, a times columnist pleads with biden not to run, and then there s the former president. tuesday s times, half of gop voters to leave trump behind, poll finds, and a significant number vowing to abandon him if he wins the nomination. trump s response, this is good, the failing new york times is down 40% year to date because if they are fake news. their reporters are dishonest. they hate our country. the new york times is truly the enemy of the people. now, of course the media would be committing hall practice if they didn t report on malpractice if they didn t report on biden s awful poll numbers or
case, dr. caitlin bernard, the indianapolis-based physician who took care of the young girl, she s been the target of threats and smears including from indiana s republican attorney general, who said he ll be investigating her. none of this is new to dr. bernard, or to many other abortion providers. they ve been the targets of threats for years, back in 2020, doctor bernard stopped offering her services to a clinic after the fbi alerted her employers that a kidnapping threat had been made against her daughter. there is in fact a long history of violence against abortion providers in this country. according to the national abortion federation, there have been 11 murders, nearly 500 assaults, 42 bombings, and 196 artisans directed at abortion clinics and at volunteers since 1977. the threat of violence has been increasing for years. last week, tammy coleman oscar, the director of north dakota s last remaining abortion clinic spoke of the threats that her clinics have recently e
january six committee wants answered. as the into trump and his allies. overnight, the committee subpoenaed the secret service over deleted text messages on and before january 6th. so how did those text messages just disappear? this, week the homeland security general the ig says it happened after the messages were requested for an investigation into the attack. the secret service is telling a different story though. it says there were no malicious intense, the messages were deleted after the request because of a, quote, preplanned distant migration. what about the requests from congress? the secret service says it plans to responsibly to the subpoena. this comes as the committee gathers new facts about the so-called unhinged december 18th meeting at the white house. that is the meeting where outside advisers known as team crazy suggested that trump administration should seize voting machines to sniff out widespread voter fraud, fraud that trump knew simply didn t exist.
path across this entire country. data from the cdc shows that more than half of the u.s. population lives in a county with high community transmission as we speak, and they predict we will soon see hospitalizations begin to increase as well. in los angeles county, there s a concern they re so concerned that they re talking about even reviving an indoor mask mandate within the next two weeks. cnn s camila bernal is at the santa monica pier with more. camila, how much have transmission rates actually increased in l.a. county? well, look, the county says they re seeing about 9,000 cases every single day, and the problem is that hospitalizations are increasing. they say that compared to last month they ve seen an 88% increase. so for every 100,000 people that are here, 10.5 more or less, are having to be hospitalized and that s what s concerning for them. so they say that if those numbers stay or increase over the next couple of weeks, what s going to happen is that everyone